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Archive for July, 2008

Update for MOC Phone Edition aka "Tanjay" v1.0.522.101

This download was originally released on October 15, 2007.  For a complete list of fixes and changes in this latest version, please see KB article 952693.

Click here to download the update…

Advanced Group Policy in Vista

Windows Client Springboard Series: Advanced Group Policy
Derek Melber, author, IT Consultant and Microsoft MVP for Group Policy, discusses how to effectively use the new group policy objects in Windows Vista to improve manageability and strengthen security.

Click here to download…

Server 2008 management pack updates for SCOM 2007

Announced on the OpsMgr team blog

"OpsMgr 2007 SP1 and SCE 2007 SP1 have recently announced support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in knowledge base article 953141. Along with the release of this support statement, the first batch of management packs that provide monitoring for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Operating System have been released to the MP Catalog. This batch of MPs covers the following technologies:

  • Windows Server Operating System
  • Windows Terminal Services
  • Windows Server 2008 Application Server
  • Windows Key Management Service"

Read the rest of the post here…

OCS Presence in Lotus Notes

Overview

This sample shows how to use a use an ActiveX control to display presence status and provide real-time collaboration options in Lotus Notes. The control requires that Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 is installed on the client machines.

Click here to download the sample API…

Click here to read Johann’s original post…

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According to Johann the tool focuses on two main objectives:

  1. Allow Notes users to immediately experience Office Communications Server 2007 technologies working in their own environment
  2. Support Notes developers to quickly integrate Office Communications Server technologies into their own custom Notes applications

Powershell meets OCS

This post has been working it’s way through the online world for a few days now and I personally am a huge fan of Powershell and Powergui.

Dmitry’s post illustrates just how deep and powerful Powershell can be…

"If you have Office Communications Server 2007 there’s a new must have tool for you: OCS powerpack for PowerGUI just posted by Curtis Johnstone: it is free, totally based on PowerShell (you can see the PowerShell code behind each and every node, link, or action), and has a lot of functionality not present in the native OCS MMC."

Read the rest of Dmitry’s post here…

Get the powerpack for PowerGUI here…

Unified Communications Certificate Partners for Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007

INTRODUCTION

Microsoft works with public X.509 certification authorities (CAs) to make sure that Microsoft Exchange Server customers can obtain the certificates that they require in order to use Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for the Domain Security feature to enable secure client access from the Internet.
Microsoft also works with CAs in order to make sure that Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 customers can obtain certificates that they require for Communications Server 2007 servers.

Click here to read the rest of the KB…

Good post from Aaron on the topic that is worth a look…